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Wash. Rapid Transit, duplex trucks – Historic Photo Reproduction

Wash. Rapid Transit, duplex trucks, [between 1920 and 1921] — historic photograph
Wash. Rapid Transit, duplex trucks, [between 1920 and 1921]. Historic photograph from the National Photo Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Wash. Rapid Transit, duplex trucks. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This glass negative records a close view of the trucks, the wheel-and-axle frames that carried Washington's rapid transit cars, at a time when the city's streetcar and interurban network was expanding. The National Photo Company, a commercial firm that photographed Washington and the surrounding region in the early twentieth century, made the image, and its title and date come from the company's own notes and from neighboring negatives, so both are approximate. The plate was a gift from Herbert A. French in 1947. Viewers should expect streaks and blemishes in the image, which come from deterioration of the original emulsion coating on the glass.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan6,396 × 5,177 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-259268

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